Doing the McKayla Edition

August 30, 2012

From yesterday’s Boston Herald Inside Track:

Tracked down: Maria Menounos, Larry David, Rajon Rondo and more . . .

Medford homegirl Maria Menounos hanging with Olympic gymnast Mckayla Maroney on the “Extra” set in LA..

 

For once, the Track Gals (and Megan!) missed the joke.

But the Boston Globe Namesniks didn’t.

Doing the McKayla

Everywhere she goes, it seems, Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney (left) has to makes the same sour expression she famously made during the medal ceremony in London. But, now, it’s all in fun. This week, while filming a segment for “Extra,” Maroney and Medford’s Maria Menounos pursed their lips in mock disappointment.

Score one for the Boring Broadsheet.

 

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Pesky Funeral Edition

August 23, 2012

The Boston Herald is decidedly not happy with the turnout for Johnny Pesky’s funeral by current Boston Red Sox players.

Or lack of turnout, to be precise.

It starts at the top of today’s front page (via The Newseum).

Next up: Joe Fitzgerald’s column.

Shame on Red Sox players

They’re the slowest-moving targets in town, easy to ridicule as they stagger to the merciful end of this dreadful season, but the Red Sox [team stats], as a team, could have hit one out of the park just by showing up at Johnny Pesky’s funeral.

That’s all they had to do, even if they didn’t feel a personal urge to show up, which might have been the case for many of them . . .

All they had to do was show up.

What a shame they didn’t, not for Johnny, but for them.

Not to get technical about it, but four current players did show up, as the Track Gals (and Megan!) pointed out in this item that had Sox management on the defensive.

Lucchino defends players who skipped Pesky funeral

Red Sox [team stats] president Larry Lucchino this morning defended his team for the small turnout at Johnny Pesky’s funeral earlier this week, saying it was “unnecessary to focus on that issue.”

“I think the people who knew Johnny best came to it,” Lucchino told WEEI’sDennis & Callahan.

Lucchino told the station that the team had more than 100 mourners at the service including front office staff, ownership, current players, staff and former players.

“It was a very impressive turnout,” he said.

But among current players only David Ortiz [stats], Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Vincente Padilla and Clay Buchholz were in the pews for Pesky’s final farewell. (Manager Bobby Valentine was also there.)

The Gals finish off the item (and the Sox players) with a flourish: “Despite the small turnout at Pesky’s final farewell, most of the team turned out that night for Josh Beckett’s  annual Beckett Bowl and concert at Lucky Strike Lanes and the House of Blues that night.”

To be sure, the Beckett Bowl is for a good cause, but ouch!

 

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Taylor Swift Wedding Crasher Edition

August 22, 2012

From the evidence in today’s Boston dailies, Taylor Swift is not the most welcome guest in and around town.

Start with the Boston Herald, where the Track Gals (and Megan!) produced this startling report:

Kennedy mom: Taylor Swift crashed wedding

Taylor Swift crashed the Kennedy wedding in Boston over the weekend and did not leave after being twice asked to do so, the mother of the bride, Victoria Gifford Kennedy, told the Track yesterday.

But Swift’s publicist insisted that the country superstar was a welcome guest and that the bride was happy to have her share the spotlight.

A source at the hotel reported seeing Swift being asked to leave the Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel where Kyle Kennedy, the daughter of the late Michael Kennedy and Victoria Gifford Kennedy, was celebrating her marriage to Liam Kerr on Saturday. So we rang up Vicki for the 411.

“They texted me an hour before the wedding and asked if they could come,” Vicki Kennedy said. “I responded with a very clear, ‘Please do not come.’ They came anyway. … I personally went up to Ms. Swift, whose entrance distracted the entire event, politely introduced myself to her, and asked her as nicely as I could to leave. It was like talking to a ghost. She seemed to look right past me.”

Funny, she does the same thing to us.

Over at the Globe, the hardreading staff’s plaintive request on WBUR’s Radio Boston last Friday – namely, would someone figure out if Swift actually bought a house on the Cape or not? – was very kindly answered in todays Names column.  And the answer is: Nobody knows.

It’s been widely rumored that the country singer, who’s currently dating Conor Kennedy, plunked down $4.9 million — a tiny fraction of her sizable fortune — to buy the 4,440-square-foot gray shingle spread across the street from Ethel Kennedy ’s place in Hyannis Port.

But it’s tough to confirm. The deed on the property is held by Coleman Limited Partnership of Greenwich, Conn., and calls to the previous owner, Nancy Coleman, were not returned. Meanwhile, an employee at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds — who told us he’s talked to “tons” of reporters trying to confirm the sale — said if Swift did indeed purchase the place, her name would not necessarily appear on public records.

Okay, then. But one thing the Namesniks do know: “While Swift herself is welcome in town, some residents we spoke to aren’t so wild about the press and paparazzi that have followed her.”

Well, at least we’ve got that cleared up.

 

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Is Taylor Swift a Cape Cod Homeowner? Edition

August 20, 2012

When the hardreading staff last left our Taylor Swift bureau, we had received conflicting reports about whether she had actually purchased a house next door to/across the street from Ethel Kennedy’s manse in Hyannisport/Hyannis Port (per the Boston Herald/Globe).

Then . . . nothing. No resolution. Just confusion and anxiety.

Which was alleviated not at all by this piece in the Herald’s Inside Track today:

Taylor Swift’s storybook romance

Taylor Swift’s summer fling with the Kennedy clan continued over the weekend. On Friday, she and her BF, 18-year-old Conor Kennedy, were smooching in Hyannisport, on Saturday, they were in Boston for a Kennedy wedding and yesterday, they were back in church in Centerville.

The fun began Friday afternoon when Conor and Tay Tay, both dressed in shorts, played a little tonsil hockey on the dock in Hyannisport. The lovebirds were soooooo busy macking on each other, they paid no attention to boaters who were cruising the busy dock, taking in the PDA.

Right – later they went to the wedding, then the lovebirds sashayed through Haymarket and the North End, then it was back to the Cape where they attended Sunday Mass and where Swift MIGHT OR MIGHT NOT OWN A HOUSE.

The Track Gals (and Megan!) – normally a storehouse of information – don’t say.

The hardreading staff just wishes someone would.

 

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